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Very good point. Being from San Antonio Texas, I've seen the statistics firsthand that illustrate how non native English speakers struggle in western education. The dropout rate among Hispanics (many of which are first and 2nd generation illegal and legal immigrants) is even higher than blacks. Plus you also have high birthrate and out of wedlock children.

Bureaucrats are pretty funny, on one hand they want more power to "fix poverty" and on the other hand they import poverty by the millions who won't even get a GED, let a lone a college degree.

GED's aside, the trades (as you well know) are chock full of these immigrants and they are doing extremely skillful work.

Many "libertarians" and very progressive thinkers (Paypay founder Peter Thiel) would take issue with you measuring people by these educational statistics alone. I'm a high school dropout and probably in the top 2%. Many of the founders of our big modern tech firms are college dropouts....meaning they didn't see anything worth staying for.

What people need is literacy AND skills. Income then usually blesses the next generation with much more...and I see evidence of that regularly. Rome wasn't built in a day and the former immigrants (Italian, Eastern European, Scots-Irish) were often illiterate in English and even often in their native tongues. But it didn't continue -now they make up many of our top innovators and earners.

Very good point. Being from San Antonio Texas, I've seen the statistics firsthand that illustrate how non native English speakers struggle in western education. The dropout rate among Hispanics (many of which are first and 2nd generation illegal and legal immigrants) is even higher than blacks. Plus you also have high birthrate and out of wedlock children.

Bureaucrats are pretty funny, on one hand they want more power to "fix poverty" and on the other hand they import poverty by the millions who won't even get a GED, let a lone a college degree.

Birueacrats have little interest in that. You mean farmers and other industries that use cheap labor.

It is true that we have stabilized - largely because the GOP has fought tooth and nail against giving a "hand up"
to the lower classes. But still.....measured by most any statistic, FDR and LBJ (and T. Roosevelt)
are the biggest heroes of the 20th century.

Largely because of the GOP... this population has been encouraged (coerced even forced) to create ever more of themselves.
Children that they couldn't afford to support then and still can't now (before of after the programs).
And they're still doing it.

Well, I see homeless when I drive to work every day. No one's helping them. And no one seems interested in helping them.

So there are 500,000 homeless. How much would it cost to simply rent apartments for them? By my reckoning about $6 billion a year. The U.S. federal budget is $2.1 trillion a year, so we could resolve that problem if we wanted to shift two tenths of one percent of resources.

"MIC 2025 starts by listing the robotics industry, along with artificial intelligence and automation, as one of the priority sectors for high-end development to push forward the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. This push sees the government aiming to raise the global market share of Chinese-made robots from 31 percent in 2016 to over 50 percent by 2020."

Who knows, maybe that's fake news, right?

That's just one industry. Think about education. What are you taught? You're taught processes. These processes are continuously optimized and will eventually be able to be implemented by machine learning processes that will eliminate a significant amount of "white collar" oriented jobs.

We're looking at a paradigm change and this discounts everything else that could affect the US, such as international de-dollarization which is something that is starting to occur on a more regular basis. There was a failure to invest in infrastructure during the recovery period, so now the US has trillions of dollars of debt and entering what appears to be potentially the end of a long business cycle.

It's hard to say how long that could last, but surely it will expedite innovation, particularly from countries that actually have initiatives and make it a priority to lead the world in this type of technology. However, it remains to be seen if it will positively affect the people of China.

Given this, it seems quite obvious to me that there will millions of unemployable and indebted Americans with absolutely no prospect of living a middle class life (IE: one that consists of lower end private security, high walls, wall spikes, neighborhood watch, dogs, spotlights, panic buttons, lol, etc), might end up resorting to things like crime.

This is only exacerbated by the media today by what seems as if they are finding ways to classify people in order to turn them against each other. The richest of the rich will be secured by the mountains and the coast. They will be well protected by constant drone fly-bys, humanoid like robots, check points, etc. They will rely less on humans because humans "cannot be trusted."

This is coming to the US. You think just abandoning any public welfare and burdening college students with insurmountable debt will lead to a peaceful society?

I hope I'm wrong too. I could easily be wrong. All that it takes for me to be wrong is for people to start thinking about their elderly and their youth regardless of sex, religion, race, class, perceived attractiveness, perceived intelligence, etc, etc, etc, etc.

Just like generations before us who came together during crisis and put their lives at stake, I believe if we have the discipline to do the same, in the sense of employing austerity on us and focusing on innovating sustainable products and services as well as redeveloping our infrastructure and essentially decentralizing our society with a goal of self-sufficiency with multiple fail safes and high levels of both health and safety, that we can preserver and prosper.

How can people expect to live in a world where health and safety are not met? These are the fundamentals in Maslow's heirachy.

Are we now to teach people to go straight to self-actualization? Let me tell you about self-actualization. Self-actualization takes no discipline. Self-actualization can come in the form of an out of wedlock pregnancy or even a bullet depending on the situation. Self-actualization can be a weakness unless it's unselfish self-actualization or even better, altruistic self-actualization. Imagine if everyone followed that guideline.

Hasn't anyone ever read the parable about building a house on sand? What do you think will happen during a storm?

If you don't provide a society with their basic fundamental needs, then there is simply no foundation. Am I wrong?

As a black man I know a little something about poverty. We are the poorest demographic in the country, despite all the rich black athletes and entertainers you see on television.

I agree with the OP in that the war on poverty is largely won. There are no famines in America or lack of access to runnng water. There is no one sleeping on dirt floors. America’s underclass is the envy of the world.

The war is on laziness. Too many people are so damn lazy in this country, they just want stuff given to them. Free education, free healthcare, minimal wage hikes, free food, etc. nothing is free in this country.

If you are poor in this country then it was 100% your choice. No one forced you to drop out of high school to work at McDonalds. No one forced you to have kids out of wedlock. No one forced you to be a convicted felon. No one forced you to finance a used foreign luxury car. No one forced you to marry or date that bum who doesn’t like working.

No one is stopping you from doing something the world wants done so you can provide for your family. The poor in this country will never have sympathy from the poor in Mexico.

Sorry but saying that being poor is 100% your choice is ignorant. What about the people who grew up poor with limited education opportunities or people who have disabilities or just not born smart? Just blaming people for being poor is such a lazy argument. I am pretty sure no poor people in other countries are envy of people here who have to worry all the time if they will have enough money to pay for rent or have enough to eat. In many third world countries even though they are poor they can at least afford a shack and not worry about being evicted.

"MIC 2025 starts by listing the robotics industry, along with artificial intelligence and automation, as one of the priority sectors for high-end development to push forward the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. This push sees the government aiming to raise the global market share of Chinese-made robots from 31 percent in 2016 to over 50 percent by 2020."

Who knows, maybe that's fake news, right?

That's just one industry. Think about education. What are you taught? You're taught processes. These processes are continuously optimized and will eventually be able to be implemented by machine learning processes that will eliminate a significant amount of "white collar" oriented jobs.

We're looking at a paradigm change and this discounts everything else that could affect the US, such as international de-dollarization which is something that is starting to occur on a more regular basis. There was a failure to invest in infrastructure during the recovery period, so now the US has trillions of dollars of debt and entering what appears to be potentially the end of a long business cycle.

It's hard to say how long that could last, but surely it will expedite innovation, particularly from countries that actually have initiatives and make it a priority to lead the world in this type of technology. However, it remains to be seen if it will positively affect the people of China.

Given this, it seems quite obvious to me that there will millions of unemployable and indebted Americans with absolutely no prospect of living a middle class life (IE: one that consists of lower end private security, high walls, wall spikes, neighborhood watch, dogs, spotlights, panic buttons, lol, etc), might end up resorting to things like crime.

This is only exacerbated by the media today by what seems as if they are finding ways to classify people in order to turn them against each other. The richest of the rich will be secured by the mountains and the coast. They will be well protected by constant drone fly-bys, humanoid like robots, check points, etc. They will rely less on humans because humans "cannot be trusted."

This is coming to the US. You think just abandoning any public welfare and burdening college students with insurmountable debt will lead to a peaceful society?

Bureaucrats are pretty funny, on one hand they want more power to "fix poverty" and on the other hand they import poverty by the millions who won't even get a GED, let a lone a college degree.

Bureaucrats primary drive is to protect their own jobs.

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